Hurricane Matthew Claims Lives

Hurricane Matthew has pummelled Haiti with winds of more than two-hundred-and-twenty kilometres per hour -- wrecking crops and homes along the southern coast. Initial reports say the hurricane killed two people in Haiti and four in the neighbouring Dominican Republic.

The two American vice-presidential candidates are holding their first televised debate. The Democrat, Tim Kaine, is facing the outgoing Republican governor of Indiana Mike Pence at Farmville in Senator Kaine's home state of Virginia.

It's called Kirobo Mini, it's palm-sized, and it will go on sale in Japan next year. But is personal robotics the future of our social lives?